Improvement in window-brackets



UNITED STATES JOHN F. ZIMMERMAN,

OF ORESTLINE, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN WINDOW-BRACKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 192,727, dated July 3,1877; application filed April 2, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN F. ZIMMERMAN, ofUrestline, in the county of Crawford and State of Ohio, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Plant-Shelf for Windows, of which thefollowing is a specification:

Figure l is a vertical cross-section of my improved plant-shelf, thewindow-frame be ing also shown in vertical section. Fig. 2 is a top viewof the same, the window-frame being shown in cross-section through theline as m, Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to furnish an improved shelf forattachment to windowframes to receive flower-pots, which shall be simplein construction, easily attached and detached, inexpensive inmanufacture, and when detached will not leave the windowframe maimed ordisfigured.

The shelf is supported by means of arms or bars, which are so connectedwith it as to admit of adjustment according to the width of differentwindow-casings, as hereinafter described. B are the bars, which may bemade.

of hoop-iron or other suitable material, the

sides of the ends of which are placed against the sides of the windowcasing or frame. The upper edge of the ends of the bars B are notched toreceive screws 0, which are screwed into the window-frame. The loweredge of the bars B may rest upon the window-ledge or upon other screwsscrewed into the windowframe. A is the shelf, which may be a boardattached to the bars B, or the bars B may be the arms of a wide andshort Ubar, and the shelf may be formed of woven wire. In any case theshelf is attached to a rod or rods, which constitutes the frame.connected to the shelf A by means of bands or wire loops at, which passaround said rod or rods and slide thereon, so that the bars may beadjusted nearer or farther apart, according to the width of thewindow-casing.

What I claim is- The combination of the adjustable bars B andconnecting-loops a with the shelf A, as

shown and described, for the purpose specified.

JOHN F. ZIMMERMAN. Witnesses:

[ E. L. BERGER,

GEORGE A. BELL.

The bars B are-

